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Study Guide for Evolution

Second  Edition©2016 Carl Zimmer; Douglas J. Emlen

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This study guide is a tool to help students understand what they have learned reading Evolution: Making Sense of Life, Second Edition, by Carl Zimmer and Douglas Emlen. It’s designed to be engaging, using games and exercises and online resources to broaden students learning experiences. They can dive in as deeply as they choose, doing some exercises and skipping others, and they can test their comprehension when they’re done. Throughout, QR codes are used to take students to the websites listed in the text.

Table of Contents

1. The Whale and the Virus: How Scientists Study Evolution

2. From Natural Philosophy to Darwin: A Brief History of Evolutionary Ideas

3. What the Rocks Say: How Geology and Paleontology Reveal the History of Life

4. The Tree of Life: How Biologists Use Phylogeny to Reconstruct the Deep Past

5. Raw Material: Heritable Variation among Individuals

6. The Ways of Change: Drift and Selection

7. Beyond Alleles: Quantitative Genetics and the Evolution of Phenotypes

8. Natural Selection: Empirical Studies in the Wild

9. The History in Our Genes

10. Adaptation: From Genes to Traits

11. Sex: Causes and Consequences

12. After Conception: The Evolution of Life History and Parental Care

13. The Origin of Species

14. Macroevolution: The Long Run

15. Intimate Partnership: How Species Adapt to Each Other

16. Minds and Microbes: The Evolution of Behavior

17. Human Evolution: A New Kind of Ape

18. Evolutionary Medicine

Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer is one of the country’s leading science writers. A columnist for The New York Times and a regular contributor to magazines like Scientific American and National Geographic, he is the author of thirteen books, including Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea and A Planet of Viruses. Zimmer is a lecturer at Yale University, where he teaches science writing. He is a three-time winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award and the winner of the National Academies Communication Award. You can learn more at the author's website: www.carlzimmer.com.

Douglas J. Emlen

Douglas J. Emlen is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering from the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House, multiple research awards from the National Science Foundation, including their five-year CAREER award, and a Young Investigator Prize and the E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award from the American Society of Naturalists. His research has been featured in outlets including the New York Times and National Public Radio’s Fresh Air. He is a professor at the University of Montana.